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Dish in Shape of Mount Fuji with Horses and Deer

ca. 1625
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204
The shape of the dish, which alludes to the famed Mount Fuji, indicates that it was commissioned by a Japanese patron, most likely for a meal that accompanied the tea ceremony. The inscription, which discusses roaming with deer and horses in a landscape, is an allusion to a similar phrase in the writings of the Chinese philosopher Mencius (ca. 327–289 B.C.).

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Object Information
  • 明晚期 景德鎮窯青花鹿馬山水富士山型盤
  • Title: Dish in Shape of Mount Fuji with Horses and Deer
  • Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Tianqi period (1621–27)
  • Date: ca. 1625
  • Culture: China
  • Medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
  • Dimensions: H. 2 1/16 in. (5.3 cm); W. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); L. 11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Barbara and William Karatz Gift, Gift of C. T. Loo and Company, by exchange and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2010
  • Object Number: 2010.206
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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